Book Description

Winner of the 2014 Jolt Award for "Best
Book"

“Whether you are an experienced
programmer or are starting your career, Python in Practice is full
of valuable advice and example to help you improve your craft by
thinking about problems from different perspectives, introducing
tools, and detailing techniques to create more effective
solutions.”

—Doug Hellmann, Senior
Developer, DreamHost

If you’re an experienced Python
programmer, Python in Practice will help you improve
the quality, reliability, speed, maintainability, and usability of
all your Python programs.

Mark Summerfield focuses on four key themes:
design patterns for coding elegance, faster processing through
concurrency and compiled Python (Cython), high-level networking,
and graphics. He identifies well-proven design patterns that are
useful in Python, illuminates them with expert-quality code, and
explains why some object-oriented design patterns are irrelevant to
Python. He also explodes several counterproductive myths about
Python programming—showing, for example, how Python can take
full advantage of multicore hardware.

All examples, including three complete case
studies, have been tested with Python 3.3 (and, where possible,
Python 3.2 and 3.1) and crafted to maintain compatibility with
future Python 3.x versions. All code has been tested on Linux, and
most code has also been tested on OS X and Windows. All code may be
downloaded at www.qtrac.eu/pipbook.html.